Electronic & Software Engineering BSc

University of Glasgow · honours · 4 years · optional year abroad · UCAS 7583course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £30,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£30,000

median, based on 25 graduates · half earned £21,500–£40,500 · Discover Uni (LEO)

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

Entry requirements for this course are not yet on file; see the university’s course page.

Glasgow course page, read 19 September 2026 · Discover Uni entry profile

Who actually got in: 49% with A levels, 36% via Access courses, 2% with other higher education. 35% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 55 entrants.

UCAS tariff points — a points scale for grades: A* = 56, A = 48, so A*A*A = 160. Entrants’ totals include extra subjects.

After graduating

Where does it lead?

£30,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£22k
Median£30k
Upper quarter£41k

Median — the middle earner: half earned more, half less. Pay is for graduates of this subject at this university who finished in 2016-18, not adjusted for inflation; based on 25 graduates.

Discover Uni dataset (HESA and Office for Students, CC BY 4.0, contains HESA data); earnings from the Longitudinal Education Outcomes data (Department for Education) · aggregation level 23, 13

Half of graduates earned between £21,500 and £40,500. Five years on, the median is £40,000. 100% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 95% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 114% left86%60
In work or study, 15 months on15% studying100%25
Professional or managerial job95%20
Pay 15 months on, median£35,50020
Pay 3 years on, median£30,00025
Pay 5 years on, median£40,00030
Money

What does it cost?

Fees not on file; see the university’s fees page.

Glasgow fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

80%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 73% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 35 students answered

Highest: 90% agreed on question 3; lowest: 46% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 183%
Question 271%
Question 390%
Question 486%
Question 572%
Question 679%
Question 767%
Question 888%
Question 981%
Question 1072%
Question 1169%
Question 1278%
Question 1359%
Question 1453%
Question 1579%
Question 1683%
Question 1767%
Question 1878%
Question 1984%
Question 2089%
Question 2178%
Question 2276%
Question 2372%
Question 2446%
Question 2567%
Question 2680%

Question texts are published by the Office for Students; the dataset carries only the question numbers.

Modules, entry requirements and fees are facts read from University of Glasgow’s course page on 2026-09-19 and may change; the university’s page is authoritative. Descriptions are not reproduced. Outcome figures are from the Discover Uni dataset. University of Glasgow is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.